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Show "God Has Been Good To Me" Vern Haugland, Associated 5 Press war correspondent, Da '0 s chuted from a storm-whipped '.y Army plane on August 7th drnn ping 13,00 feet into the mountain ,( vvilderm; of New Guinea " Haugland wandered for'fortv three days before he was f0Un(i rf'X by missionanes m a native vil fill lage on September 19th. Thin V he was carried through the 1up1p for five days to an Australian rtl1 plane which took him to Po" jOl Moresby hospital. Here he emerp ed from a long delirium and reported recovering. ' Al Extracts from his diary havo ' been published detailing the al most incredible hardships endur" ed in his efforts to reach civil!" I" zation. Slow progress through the jungles, tedious climbs owr high mountains, terrible nishti funC in the rain and unbearable mn squitoes make up a slender sum ! 3; mary of his journey. jller Haugland nearly starved Hp heard airplanes but they did not J Jr see him. He slept in mud, under 'Kt leaves and under logs. He was :Jl . exhausted, his feet were sorp s andrepeatedly, ne was "near the Nevertheless, this man, after ;arg6 suffering for twelve days and " fighting against the jungle and "f elements for his life, wrote in his diary, "Whatever happens In6i God has been good to me." Four 511 days later, going down a vallev iAV "Hope opened through," he wrote i3U and cites a rock crevice, where he ' avoided heavy storms, as an "ex- ije ' ample of how the Lord shepherd- ;i f ed me." e aid ,(11 a |